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Cinema60Ep# 91 - Biker Films of 1969Kick start your engines! Throw on that cutoff jean jacket vest with the pro-fascist pins ‘n’ patches! Respect nobody and nothing - society’s rules least of all! That’s right, it’s time to hit the highway and live that dream of total freedom and cause some violent mayhem and wanton destruction! It’s biker movies of 1969!In this season finale, as part of their once Bootleg Bond series, now expanded Genre series, Bart and Jenna explore all that hogs and leather have to offer. Don’t miss out on their in depth discussion on 1960s cinema classic...
2025-01-301h 20
Cinema60Ep #90 - Russ Meyer in the 60sOne a basic level, ‘60s cinema is the story of the complete breakdown of censorship rules about what could and could not be shown on American theater screens. Hollywood’s Production Code was already falling apart in the ‘50s when competition with television forced movies to offer kinds of entertainment that were not available on the small screen. Films from countries with fewer restrictions on content were being shown more frequently and naturist documentaries were getting around rules about nudity – though you had to go to “art” cinemas or less reputable theaters to see these things. While the studios still had st...
2025-01-071h 34
Cinema60Ep #89 - Dirty Dozen Rip-Offs in the 60sThe impact of The Dirty Dozen on the decade cannot be overstated – here was a big-budget, Hollywood star-powered blockbuster, about a popular topic, that simply didn’t hold back. Toss on the fact that there was no rating system at the time, it’s very likely Little Timmy didn’t know what he was getting into when he decided to go see that new World War II movie. With a few well placed curse words and a few dozen dead Nazis, director Robert Aldrich ushered a whole new era of screen violence into the American consciousness. In this epi...
2024-12-171h 40
Cinema60Dwight Macdonald's 60s Pick: Last Year at MarienbadCinema60 is back with a ghost guest in order to highlight some notable opinions on film. Dwight Macdonald, a celebrity film critic of the ‘50s and ‘60s who is now more remembered as a cultural critic and political pundit, had a lot to say about the dumbing down of high art to appeal to middlebrow tastes. Championing films that challenged audiences, he famously took on Alain Resnais’ Last Year at Marienbad as one of the most difficult films to ever be embraced by American audiences. While he does not consider the film one of his favorites, he admire...
2024-11-1456 min
Cinema60Ep# 87 - Akira Kurosawa in the 60sFor the first half of the 1960s, Akira Kurosawa was arguably at the peak of his career, making masterpiece after masterpiece at a rate that was sure to surpass the heights of his ‘50s glories. But then, after making the most beloved film of his career, he hit a wall. There would be several more great films to come, but for a while there it seemed like the career of one of cinema’s most widely celebrated masters had come to an end. In this episode, Bart and Jenna discuss what happened to Kurosawa’s second half of the...
2024-09-031h 33
Cinema60Ep# 86 - Cinema60's Top Ten Films of 1962Bart and Jenna want to tell you what their favorites films from 1962 are, but the catch is that the films can only be selected from films covered on Cinema60 so far! But first, they’re going to talk about six films from 1961 that they’ve chosen to watch in hopes that they can snazz up their Top Tens with some bonus bangers. (Aka, basically it’s just Kiss Marry Kill by a different name.)Jenna’s picks for the episode are a diverse range of societal critiques, but all three are favorite genres of hers: the anti-authoritarian fable, t...
2024-06-111h 44
Cinema60Ep# 85 - Bulgarian Cinema in the 60sFollowing in the tradition of our episodes on Ukraine and Egypt, where we tried to find our way into national cinemas that are virtually inaccessible in the West (not to mention our other single-nation episodes on Poland, Brazil, Hong Kong, West Germany, Japan, Czechoslovakia and Mexico that focus more narrowly on a single movement or genre), we gathered up as many movies as we could find, read some academic articles, and then watched the six most promising Bulgarian movies from the ‘60s. Our intention, of course, is to give a taste of what the country has to offer, rather th...
2024-05-211h 18
Cinema60Ep# 84 - Shakespeare in the 60sWhat-ho, Cinema60 fans! Six seasons we hath returned, recorded, and bearing our newfangled episodes. In this, our triumphant premiere we speaketh, perchance to wax lyrical, about the works of The Bard – on this April 23, his day of birth! Well enow, we'll cease our foolishness. But there were quite a few direct Shakespeare adaptations in the decade, let alone movies inspired by Shakespeare (West Side Story, anyone?). Whether you've read or seen these plays a thousand times, or are a first timer, the ‘60s offer a nice evolution from stage-bound adaptations to fully fledged cinematic delights.In this epis...
2024-04-231h 35
Cinema60Ep #83 - Bands Playing Themselves in the 60sWhen A Hard Days Night exploded onto the scene in 1964, its charm and success was simply ripe for some good ol’ fashioned bootlegging. What followed was half a decade of wannabe music movies – specifically, movies in which pop bands play themselves while still following a strictly scripted plot. Mainly these were vehicles for British boy bands, but eventually they started to extend over to the Americas – where they warped from wholesome to hippie.In this season finale, Bart and Jenna tackle several of these band movies head on – and with Head on. It’s an episode full of high hi...
2024-02-201h 26
Cinema60Ep# 82 - Sergei Parajanov & Yuri Ilyenko in the 60sIn a follow up to the Ukrainian National Cinema episode, Cinema60 finally addresses the beautiful, surreal and unfairly banned films of Sergei Parajanov and Yuri Ilyenko – two figures that are essential to the story of what was getting made in that region while it was under Soviet control. In the case of Parajanov, his films of the ‘60s are amongst the most striking and influential ever made. In the case of Ilyenko, a lesser known but equally astonishing filmmaker, his unique visual sense of rhythm and movement are a sight to behold. Together, they made Shadows of the Forgotten Ance...
2023-12-121h 59
Cinema60Ep #81 - The Many Faces of Django in the 60sIn 1966, somewhere along the United States-Mexico border, a man wearing a tattered Union uniform drags a coffin across the desert… and into the hearts of the Italian moviegoing public. What was it about this mix of blood, violence, sweaty masculine tusslin’, and steely blue eyes? With just one film, Sergio Corbucci inspired over thirty five remakes, sequels, and rip-offs – the first two even in the same year the original film came out. In this episode, as part of their once Bootleg Bond series, now expanded Genre series, Bart and Jenna make it their business to map out Django...
2023-11-211h 15
Cinema60Ep #80 - Cinema60's Top Ten Films of 1961Bart and Jenna want to tell you what their favorites films from 1961 are, but the catch is that the films can only be selected from films covered on Cinema60 so far! But first, they’re going to talk about six films from 1961 that they’ve chosen to watch in hopes that they can snazz up their Top Tens with some bonus bangers. (Aka, basically it’s just Kiss Marry Kill by a different name.)Coincidentally, some specific topics end up popping up frequently in the episode. First and foremost, we get a lot of talk about commedia all'it...
2023-10-311h 48
Cinema60Ep #79 - Susan Sontag's 60s Pick: PersonaOnce again, Cinema60 communes with the dead in order to highlight some notable opinions on film. Tonight’s ghost guest is Susan Sontag and her seminal Sight and Sound review on Ingmar Bergman’s Persona. Known primarily as an author, filmmaker and intellect, in the 1960s Sontag was just beginning her illustrious career as a writer – her essay “Notes on ‘Camp’” helped to define the camp aesthetic to the public at large. Simiarly, her 1967 review of Persona has endured throughout the ages, rising above other contemporary voices to help audiences (old and new alike) better derive meaning from Bergman’s rather abstrac...
2023-10-101h 00
Cinema60Ep# 78 - Documentaries in 1969Here at Cinema60 we’ve embraced the endless task of putting a pin in the entirety of Sixties cinema. However, one area where we have been remiss in our duties is documentaries – a genre that truly came into its own during this decade. Films like Robert Drew’s Primary and Jean Rouch & Edgar Morin’s Chronicle of a Summer began to break from the popular “voice of God” expository mode, giving way to a greater variety of non-fiction documentary filmmaking techniques. By the end of the decade, the narrated newsreel style was relegated primarily to television, and movie theaters were home to...
2023-09-191h 44
Cinema60Ep# 77 - Christopher J. Lee's 60s Picks: Battle of Algiers & Black GirlBart and Jenna are rarely afraid to dive headfirst into uncharted areas of cinema, but certain movies are just too important for them to toss around in their usual subjective way. Gillo Pontecorvo’s The Battle of Algiers is one such landmark work that seems irresponsible to discuss without a maximum amount of context. That’s why Cinema60 invited African Studies and Decolonization scholar Christopher J. Lee to the podcast to help them unpack the history and politics of the film and the events that it depicts.In addition, Chris wanted to talk about Ousmane Sembène’s Black...
2023-08-291h 11
Cinema60Ep#76 - Doris Day Is Not That Kinda Girl in the 60sIn the immortal words of Betty Rizzo: “Watch it, hey, I’m Doris Day – I was not brought up that way!” While teen stars could always be counted on to keep their pants on in the dying days of Old Hollywood comedy, Doris Day was a unique figure in that she played adult working women who were continually thrown into the most lustful of situations, and never worried audiences that she’d come out the other side without her virtue intact. As one of the biggest box office draws of the era, movie-goers would eagerly await her latest bedroom adventures...
2023-08-081h 27
Cinema60Ep #75 - The Films of Federico Fellini in the 60sIn the year 1960, Federico Fellini premiered La Dolce Vita and changed cinema forever. That sounds like hyperbole but it’s really just fact; it was the film that not only spawned a thousand knock-offs, both contemporary and legacy, but launched Fellini’s own career into the stratosphere. Known for his dream-like films, fantastical visuals, introspective storylines and iconic Nino Rota scores, the ‘60s truly defined his unique voice as a director. In finally tackling Fellini, Cinema60 has stared into the face of God and emerged with the heaviness that comes with the gaining of great knowledge and the irrevocable loss o...
2023-07-182h 05
Cinema60Ep #74 - Carlo Vanstiphout's Guide to Kaiju in the '60sAfter Godzilla leapt to the big screen in 1954, he quickly became Japan’s most recognizable pop culture expression of lasting trauma and remorse over the nuclear end of their involvement in WWII. In the 1960s, Godzilla-inspired kaiju movies took this same metaphor of an unstoppable destructive force that indiscriminately kills both the innocent and the guilty with equal fury, and made it fun! Carlo Vanstiphout of Back Row Cinema and CRUD Buddies shares his expertise on his favorite era of Japanese monster movies and help us understand how Japan learned to stop worrying and love the atomic monsters. While Go...
2023-06-201h 33
Cinema60Ep# 73 - Cinema60's Top Ten Films of 1960Having already gotten to the end of the decade while playing Kiss Marry Kill, it was time for a change. Welcome to Top Ten, where Bart and Jenna each choose three movies – one they think they’ll love, one they know they love, and one wildcard choice – in hopes of adding to their top ten ranking of the year in question. So… not terribly dissimilar to Kiss Marry Kill. In this episode, Bart and Jenna play Top Ten with the year 1960, focusing on foreign films they know and/or expect to love. From the most arthouse of arthouse...
2023-05-301h 29
Cinema60Ep# 72 - Harry Alan Towers' Sax Rohmer's Fu Manchu Movies in the 60sThe legendary Harry Alan Towers: independent film producer, part-time pimp and full-time opportunist. Britain’s answer to Roger Corman, Towers started off the 60s believing that your brain is the most powerful sexual organ. By the end of the Sixties, he accepted – like everybody else in the biz did – that, nope, your junk is. Turned on by the literary bone fides he’d get by adapting great books into great movies, Towers instead turned his attention instead to noted hate-crime enthusiast Sax Rohmer. His pet project focused on the most evil man who never lived: Dr. Fu Manchu.In th...
2023-05-091h 22
Cinema60Ep# 71 - Soviet Sci-Fi in the 60sIn search of thought provoking astral projections from across the galaxy, the USS KINO60 has launched triumphantly for what will be remembered as a utopian journey through the stars. Cosmonauts Bart and Jenna have reported some bumpy viewing conditions and unstable nuke-happy alien civilizations, but for the most part their mission has remained stylish and largely made up of primary colors. We wish them the best – glory to the conquerors of the universe!In this episode, Bart and Jenna take a peak at some choice sci-fi genre flicks from behind the Iron Curtain. What started off as a...
2023-04-181h 21
Cinema60The Films of Robert Wise in the '60sKicking off our fifth season are the films of Robert Wise, arguably the most important director of the sixties – that is if you’re going by box office profits. Despite the musical genre not being one he ever associated with before this decade, Wise almost single-handedly shaped the evolution of the Hollywood Musical. Previously known for his noirs and a few notable sci-fi and horror films, by the 1960s he became the director for two of the biggest movie musicals of all time. In this episode, Bart and Jenna cover these two Best Picture-winning films along with seve...
2023-03-281h 57
Cinema60Ep# 69 - Egypt's Golden Age of Cinema in the 60sStarting in the mid 1940s and continuing through the 1960s, Egypt experienced a Golden Age of cinema. With the third largest private film production system in the world, Egypt acted as Hollywood to most all Arabic speaking countries; producing commercially minded hit after hit, with crowd pleasing stories, star players and big wig directors. Yet, as with most industries during the time, by the 1960s the bottom had started to fall out – The Nasser regime nationalized the industry in 1966, bringing a close to what had been a rather free wheeling time of cinematic exploration and focusing more on political mi...
2022-12-291h 52
Cinema60Ep# 68 - Korean War Movies in the 60sThe Korean War is aptly known in America as the “Forgotten War.” During the 1960s, the subject took in its last cinematic hurrah before getting overshadowed by the rising unpopularity of America’s involvement in the Vietnam War. Meanwhile, South Korea was experiencing a fabled “Golden Age” of cinema that followed the civil war and continued into the ‘60s – one that had some of its most famous hits rather cruelly lost to time. At Cinema60, we’ve largely ignored the Combat Film genre on whole… until now! In this episode, Bart and Jenna take the opportunity to dig a little deepe...
2022-11-291h 44
Cinema60Ep #67 - Kiss, Marry, Kill in the 60s: 1969With a starting list of over 15,000 features and documentaries to choose from, it’s unlikely that the Cinema60 team will ever run out of movies to watch and discuss from their chosen decade. But Bart and Jenna have crossed a significant finish line with today’s episode. Starting with Episode 5 back in March of 2019, Cinema60 has regularly put out “grab bag” episodes where your hosts pick three movies each from a given year - one they’ve never seen but are itching to watch, one they absolutely adore and have been itching to talk about on the show, and one terrib...
2022-11-011h 45
Cinema60Ep# 66- Anthony Perkins in the 60sPartially due to his desire to not get typecast after his most famous role, as well an urge to escape the pressure put on him by the studios to not be so ‘out’ about his homosexuality, Perkins ran away from Hollywood and ended up having one of the strangest careers of any major star in the 60s. Fortunately, his self-imposed exile in France resulted in a bunch of movies that are exactly the kind of thing that the hosts of this podcast are always looking for: lost treasures that every cinephile should know about but not enough do. Pretty much...
2022-10-112h 04
Cinema60Ep #65- Bootleg Bond in the 60s - Agent 077We’re back in the world of Bootleg Bond, navigating the vast number of rip-offs and spoofs that tried to cash in on the 007 craze. In this episode, Cinema60 goes to Italy to scout out Agent 077 – the ever forgettable Eurospy with the ever changing name and face. Marvel as he shoots men, slaps women, skis mountains, flies helicopters, saves the world from nuclear meltdown and remains wholly unengaging throughout. These six utterly disposable entertainments aren’t really the point here, though. The real meat of episode is Bart & Jenna’s philosophical inquiry into the true nature o...
2022-09-131h 11
Cinema60Ep #64- Francis Ford Coppola in the 60sIn many ways, the story of Francis Ford Coppola in the 1960s is a true parallel to the story of the dissolution and subsequent restructuring of Hollywood throughout the decade. Coppola got into the film industry quickly after graduating college, he started in nudie flicks and worked his way up through various low budget Roger Corman pictures. After earning his MFA in film from UCLA in 1967, he graduated to working on blockbusters – only to find himself drawn to a style of independent film later known as New Hollywood. In this episode, Bart and Jenna pinpoint what it is...
2022-08-231h 44
Cinema60Ep# 63 - Zoë Rogan's 60s Pick - Bells Are RingingFour generations collide when Bart and Jenna sit down for a conversation with budding film scholar and popular Letterboxd personality, Zoë Rogan, about Boomer movies. Using the final Arthur Freed-produced MGM musical, Bells Are Ringing, as a taking off point, the three classic Hollywood fanatics get to the bottom of what it is about older movies that makes them so much more appealing than current cinema. In this episode, Bart and Jenna grill Zoë on her method for getting contemporary film fans interested in 20th-century movies. Then, while Zoë and Jenna bond over their shared Dean Martin obs...
2022-08-021h 12
Cinema60Ep# 62 - Ukrainian National Cinema in the 60sWith all of the talk of Ukraine happening right now, Cinema60 figured it was a good a time as any to see what films they could find. The films selected for this episode were mainly produced by Dovzhenko Film Studios in Kyiv during the post-Stalinist thaw that resulted in a push to create a uniquely Ukrainian Cinema that could be presented to the rest of the Soviet Union to demonstrate the diversity of cultures that have come together under one glorious united socialist banner. And so, Cinema60 tackles its most obscure batch of movies yet! It’s a...
2022-07-121h 41
Cinema60Ep #61 - Andrew Sarris' 60s Pick: The Man Who Shot Liberty ValanceContinuing our series of posthumous interviews, Cinema60 summons up Andrew Sarris from beyond the grave to talk about one of his favorite films: The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. Best known for having popularized the auteur theory to the English speaking world, Sarris was a powerhouse film critic in the 1960s who wrote primarily for The Village Voice. In this episode, Bart and Jenna discuss Sarris’ career and his unique voice in the world of film criticism before they get lost in a tangle of wildly differing opinions on the John Ford film of the hour. See, Je...
2022-06-141h 03
Cinema60Ep# 60 - Kiss, Marry, Kill in the 60s: 1968Cinema60 continues its series of Kiss, Marry, Kill, this time with a focus on the year 1968. As previously explained, it’s a variation on the ol’ FMK game, played year by year as we go through the decade. Bart and Jenna challenge each other to choose one film they love (“Marry”), one film they want to see (“Kiss”), and one film they hate (“Kill”) that was released in the year 1968.In this episode, Bart and Jenna indulge in some of the best introspective cinema that 1968 has to offer – including in depth discussions on the pitfalls of ‘60s masculinity, the tri...
2022-05-241h 58
Cinema60Ep# 59 - King Arthur and The Knights of the Round Table in the 60sWhat was it about Arthurian legends that so captivated 1960s audiences? Depending on who’s doing the retelling, and the century they’re living in, the tales of King Arthur and his knights vary wildly from stodgy conservative fables, to shockingly taboo love triangles, to intriguing surrealistic sorcery. When Lerner and Loewe’s play Camelot arrived on the scene in 1960 it quickly became a smash hit – an adaptation of T. E. White’s Freudian-heavy text, it starred Richard Burton, Julie Andrews and put Robert Goulet on the map. Camelot was further imprinted onto the public consciousness in 1963 when, after the assass...
2022-05-031h 37
Cinema60Ep# 58- Stan Brakhage in the 60sThe legacy of Stan Brakhage looms large in the crowded world of 1960s experimental film. His style of filming and editing has become instantly recognizable, as are the themes of nature, bodies, and children that he always circles back to. Having rejected a more conventional lifestyle, inspired in part by experimental artists he met in San Francisco and New York, Brakhage developed his own unique style of filmmaking from a young age – one that dabbled equally in refracted light, microscopic detail, inverted images, frenetic editing and aniline dyes. By the start of the 1960s, Brakhage had already begun to ga...
2022-04-121h 54
Cinema60Ep# 57 - Gabriele Caroti's 60s Pick - Bronco BullfrogJoining Cinema60 for this episode is Gabriele Caroti, former director of BAMcinematek and founder of film distribution company Seventy Seven. This month Seventy Seven is releasing into theaters the 2K restoration of Barney Platts-Mills’ Bronco Bullfrog, a gritty but delightful piece of British kitchen sink realism, originally released in 1970, set against the backdrop of the working class teens in East London. In this episode, Gabriele speaks to Bart and Jenna about the labor of love that went into getting this underappreciated film into repertory cinemas across the country, and they oblige him by grilling him on its pr...
2022-03-2255 min
Cinema60Ep# 56 - British Spy Films in the 60sOr perhaps we should say British Anti-Bond Spy Films in the ‘60s. Everybody knows midcentury cinema was spy crazy, but it also goes without saying that these spy films were largely modeled after the action-packed espionage found in James Bond and very little on the kind of work actual spies do. What links the films in our latest Bootleg Bond episode is the common goal on the part of a number of British production companies to demonstrate that there’s plenty of drama to be found in a more realistic portrayal of spy work.In this episode, Bart...
2022-03-151h 47
Cinema60Ep# 55 - Mexican Horror Films in the 60sBy the beginning of the ‘60s, Mexican Horror had developed its own distinct tropes, evolved from old Universal monster movies to create formulaic crowd pleasers with plenty of gothic atmosphere and vengeful supernatural creatures. But by the end of the ‘60s, they were already expanding into more original films that thoughtfully approached terror and dread in a way that’s reminiscent of modern horror techniques. So take a listen and don’t worry – this frightening trip is punctuated with moments of comedy and romance and endless bouts of wrestling along the way.As promised, in this episode Bart and J...
2022-02-221h 27
Cinema60Ep #54 - Kiss, Marry, Kill in the 60s: 1967Cinema60 continues its series of Kiss, Marry, Kill, this time with a focus on the year 1967. As previously explained, it’s a variation on the ol’ FMK game, played year by year as we go through the decade. Bart and Jenna challenge each other to choose one film they love (“Marry”), one film they want to see (“Kiss”), and one film they hate (“Kill”) that was released in the year 1967.In this episode, Bart and Jenna stumble upon an intriguing pattern in their otherwise random choices. From anti establishment thinking, anxiety over consumerism, a stance on personal fascism, and dee...
2022-02-011h 39
Cinema60Ep# 53 - Joanne Woodward in the 60sAh, Paul Newman - arguably the biggest actor of the ‘60s. Who doesn’t get lost in those dreamy blue eyes? But this episode isn’t about him, really. It’s about his better half, Joanne Woodward, who had twice his acting chops but, unfortunately, a quarter of his drawing power on the marquee. But you don’t need to do the math to discover how great Joanne is after you watch all her ‘60s movies. Don’t just take it from us, this episode was actually inspired by a listener’s request for more Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward films...
2021-12-161h 47
Cinema60Ep# 52 - Sapphic Cinema in the 60sWhile the end of the decade ushered in an explosion of gay rights movements, it’s no secret that the 1960s were not exactly the friendliest decade for LGBTQ people. When it comes to showing lesbians on film, there seemed to be a bit more wiggle room – in the same way laws were more punishing towards male homosexuality, the female variety seemed to be allowed to get away with being more openly about gay issues. Or you know, about peering into the lives of some “very close friends”… with benefits. The films that managed to get wide release in the ‘60s r...
2021-11-181h 55
Cinema60Ep #51 - The Milos Forman School in the 60sLike the rest of Europe, Czechoslovakia was busy making its own cinematic waves in the 1960s. Arguably, the Czechoslovak New Wave was one of the broadest and most formidable, stretching from extremely abstract art films to slice-of-life kitchen sink dramas. These filmmakers went in search of truth – indulging in a mix of dark humor, social satire and pure absurdism – and they would have gotten away with it too if it weren’t for that dang ol’ Soviet Union eventually putting the smack down on them. At the forefront of this movement was a special foreman – Miloš Forman, that is. By...
2021-10-191h 41
Cinema60Ep #50 - The Soviet Fairy Tales of Aleksandr Rou in the 60sOnce upon a time, in a magical red world behind an iron curtain, there existed a very special man named Aleksandr Rou. Born to two foreign-born parents, Rou worked his way up from the stage to become one of Russia’s most celebrated film directors. But Rou wasn’t any ol’ director; he focused primarily on fantasy and fairy tale films for children – building up worlds of magical witches, talking animals, underwater kingdoms, gilded palaces, silken costumes, wicked warlocks and proletariat heroes. Leaning heavily on traditional folktales at a time where being regionally unique was frowned upon, Rou’s ca...
2021-09-281h 31
Cinema60Ep# 49 - The Man From U.N.C.L.E. In the 60sIf you were a teenager in the 1960s chances are you loved three things: The Beatles, Yo-Yos and The Man From UNCLE. Okay, likely you enjoyed a variety of other things, but the adventures of Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakin sure captured the hearts and minds of the many during their four year television run. But this is cinema60 so we’re exploring the eight Man From UNCLE movies that were released (not to be confused with the surprisingly charming Guy Ritchie movie) largely for foreign audiences and cash-ins for spy-fever (aka UNCLEitis mania, scientifically).In this ep...
2021-08-171h 36
Cinema60Ep# 48 - Kiss, Marry, Kill in the 60s: 1966Bart & Jenna play Kiss Marry Kill with the year 1966. The following films are discussed:• Once Before I Die (1966) Directed by John Derek Starring Ursula Andress, John Derek, Richard Jaeckel• The Round-Up (1966) Szegénylegények Directed by Miklós Jancsó Starring János Görbe, Zoltán Latinovits, Tibor Molnár• How to Steal a Million (1966) Directed by William Wyler Starring Audrey Hepburn, Peter O'Toole, Eli Wallach• Death of a Bureaucrat (1966) La muerte de un burócrata Directed by Tomás Gutiérrez Alea Starring Salvador Wood, Silvia Planas, Manuel Estanillo• The Swinger (1...
2021-07-221h 30
Cinema60Ep# 47 - Stanley Kauffmann's 60s Picks - Jules and JimBart and Jenna dust off a 1962 article by critic Stanley Kauffmann on Truffaut’s Jules and Jim to use as a sounding board for how and why ‘60s filmgoers showed up for and reacted so favorably to challenging “art” films. They also discuss love in its various states, from the idealized to the understated love of a perfect friendship.
2021-06-2948 min
Cinema60Ep# 46- Nancy Kwan in the 60sIn 1960, Nancy Kwan burst onto the screen in glorious color as the titular Suzie Wong. The film was a major hit that both launched her career and gained her lasting name recognition in the industry. After a memorable stint in Rodgers and Hammerstein’s celebrated Flower Drum Song, she went on to a bizarre mix of smaller films and bit roles but never seemed to find her place. How could this happen to such an attractive and charming leading lady? Oh. Right. In this episode, Bart and Jenna take a look at Kwan’s career begi...
2021-06-082h 02
Cinema60Ep# 45- Haskell Wexler in the 60sThere’s an argument to be made for the idea that Haskell Wexler was one of the founding fathers of modern cinema. With his emphasis on handheld cameras, naturalistic on-location shooting and dramatic lighting, Wexler stands out as one of the few true auteur cinematographers. Between his iconic visuals and his clear interest in and emphasis on political themes and social justice, his body of work acts as both a mirror for the decade and loudspeaker to progressive values. Wexler remains a major influence to cinematographers to this very day – so who better to focus on for Cine...
2021-05-182h 05
Cinema60Ep #44 - Ann Kibbie's 60s Pick - Days of Wine and RosesGuest Ann Kibbie, English Literature professor at Bowdoin College, joins Cinema60 to discuss Jack Lemmon and Lee Remick's Days of Wine and Roses – a film she classifies as firmly in the horror genre.
2021-04-0853 min
Cinema60Ep #43 - Japanese New Wave Cinema in 1969As part of our mission statement, Cinema60 boldly claims that modern cinema was born in the 1960s. However you want to look at that assertion, there’s no denying that cinema before the ‘60s was (well, at least since the mid-1930s) safe family-friendly entertainment with bits of adult content creeping in around the edges little by little–to a greater or lesser degree depending on where in the world you lived. But by the end of the ‘60s, adults in a majority of cinema-producing countries could legally see on a movie screen just about any kind of bloody violence...
2021-03-231h 46
Cinema60Ep# 42 - Paul Bishop's 60s Pick - The ProfessionalsGuest Paul Bishop of the Six Gun Justice podcast joins us to discuss The Professionals (1966). From talk of truth and morality, sexism and racism, as well as some memorably badass women warriors, they’ve got quite a bit on their plate.
2021-03-0259 min
Cinema60Ep #41 - Jazz Anxiety Films in the 60sCharles Mingus once said: “Anyone can make the simple complicated. Creativity is making the complicated simple.” Jenna wasn’t thinking about this quote when she coined the term “Jazz Anxiety Movie” but it certainly fits. What she was thinking about was how many brilliant 1960s films about anxiety-inducing situations seem to have memorable jazz scores. But it was more than that–beyond just utilizing jazz to get across a mood, all of these movies seemed to actively reflect their scores in their filmmaking, resulting in punches of abstract visuals or non-linear plots. What indeed was this intrinsic connection between the sound of...
2021-02-161h 47
Cinema60Ep #40 - Kiss, Marry, Kill in the 60s: 1965Bart and Jenna play Kiss Marry Kill with movies in the year 1965, a year where you can feel the rebellion starting to bubble over.The following films are discussed:• Man Is Not a Bird (1965) Covek nije tica Directed by Dusan Makavejev Starring Milena Dravic, Janez Vrhovec, Eva Ras• Waqt (1965) Directed by Yash Chopra Starring Sunil Dutt, Sadhana, Raaj Kumar• Rapture (1965) Directed by John Guillermin Starring Melvyn Douglas, Patricia Gozzi, Dean Stockwell• Fists in the Pocket (1965) I pugni in tasca Directed by Marco Bellocchio Starring Lou Castel, Paola Pitagora, Marino Masé• What...
2020-12-301h 39
Cinema60Ep #39 - Marshall Terrill's 60s Pick - BullittGuest author Marshall Terrill speaks to Cinema60 about the life of Steve McQueen and the wild making of Bullitt
2020-12-221h 05
Cinema60Ep #38- Richard A Lertzman's 60s Pick - Oceans 11Guest Richard A Lertzman talks frankly to Cinema60 about his new book Deconstructing the Rat Pack: Joey, The Mob and The Summit along with breaking down the impetus behind the original Ocean's 11 (1960)
2020-12-101h 02
Cinema60Ep #37 - Luis Buñuel in the 60sAfter years of fighting against political turmoil, personal strife and artistic complacency, Luis Buñuel finally found a decade that embraced him for everything he was and could be. The famous Surrealist who was ejected from the European filmmaking community in the early ‘30s for blasphemy and a sensibility too outrageous for mass consumption, made his circuitous way back to the Continent in the ‘60s after self-imposed exile making low budget Mexican melodramas. Primed by youthful rebellion and the French New Wave, he finally found an audience for his particular brand of button-pushing non-conformity, and settled into his late caree...
2020-11-301h 42
Cinema60Ryan Moore's 60s Pick - BarbarellaRyan Moore of Lost in the Longboxes! joins Bart & Jenna for a discussion on the Barbarella comic and film
2020-11-131h 04
Cinema60Ep #35 - Eyeliner Westerns in the 60sOut here in the desert you only have two friends, your rifle and your flat angled eyeliner brush. One of Jenna’s favorite activities is spotting inappropriate fashion, hair, and makeup in meant-to-be period films. Some decades are certainly worse than others and the midcentury falls firmly in the ‘too self aware’ camp–I mean, how can you expect people to flock to the theaters if we can’t even see the general outline of some cleavage, am I right guys? While not as prudish as the 1800s, in the 1960s it was still pretty ‘shocking’ to show women in jeans, so p...
2020-10-201h 15
Cinema60Ep#34 - Deadpan International Bond Satires in the 60sSick and tired of Jenna torturing him with hours of terrible James Bond rip-offs, Bart takes the reins and chooses a mix of international bootleg Bonds that all have one very important thing in common: they make Bart laugh. How that is, or why that is, is the real question here; they border on enigmatic enough that even Bart isn’t too sure how to describe his sense of humor. Whatever it is, Modesty Blaise is certainly a big part of it. In this episode, Bart and Jenna take a dive into Bart’s Choice of international, dead...
2020-09-221h 27
Cinema60Ep #33- Danny Reid's 60s Pick - 36 HoursGuest Danny Reid of pre-code.com joins us to talk about James Garner in 36 Hours
2020-08-2555 min
Cinema60New German Cinema in the 60sDon’t feel too bad if you don’t really know what was happening culturally in 1960s West Germany. The truth is not much was happening, at least for the first half of the decade. But once the mid-’60s hit, an interesting chorus of voices and visions started to emerge from Germany’s youth. Where there had been a heap of churned out fluff, suddenly filmmakers like Werner Herzog, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Alexander Kluge and other similar minded folks began to pop up. While New German Cinema truly came of age in the 1970s, a look back at its earl...
2020-08-111h 28
Cinema60Natasha Degen's 60s Pick: Who Are You, Polly Maggoo?Bart & Jenna welcome guest Natasha Degen, chair of Art Marketing Studies at FIT, to discuss William Klein's Who Are You Polly Maggoo?
2020-07-161h 03
Cinema60Ep #30 - Kiss Marry Kill in the 60s: 1964Bart & Jenna play Kiss Marry Kill with the year 1964. The following films are discussed:• The Train (1964) Directed by John Frankenheimer Starring Burt Lancaster, Paul Scofield, Jeanne Moreau• Welcome, or No Trespassing (1964) Добро пожаловать, или Посторонним вход воспрещён Directed by Elem Klimov Starring Viktor Kosykh, Evgeniy Evstigneev, Arina Aleynikova• The Americanization of Emily (1964) Directed by Arthur Hiller Starring James Garner, Julie Andrews, James Coburn• Woman in the Dunes (1964) 砂の女 Directed by Hiroshi Teshigahara Starring Eiji Okada, Kyôko Kishida, Kôji Mitsui• Marnie (1964) Directed by Alfred Hitchcock Starring Tippi Hedren, Sean Conne...
2020-06-301h 38
Cinema60Ep #29 - Sophia Loren in the 60sWe maybe got, uh, too ambitious when we set out to watch every single Sophia Loren film from the 1960s. But how could we not? Loren was a 1960s superstar and for good reason, she starred in a whopping twenty films during the decade. The inconsistent quality of these films is a little puzzling considering the majority were produced by her career-shaping husband Carlo Ponti. However they can perhaps be partly explained by a passionate love of her craft, bolstered by a strong work ethic, which helped to pull her up from poverty. This decade in film tells the...
2020-06-102h 26
Cinema60Ep# 28 - Rachael Guma's '60s Pick: Fahrenheit 451Bart & Jenna welcome guest Rachael Guma to talk about her love of Francois Truffaut's Fahrenheit 451 (1966). She in turn blows their minds with a theory about how the film uses squares and circles as a visual language.
2020-05-2846 min
Cinema60Ep #27- Technophobic Science Fiction in 1968It’s easy to judge the past solely by its accomplishments, but doing so never provides the full picture. In isolating only the achievements of the Space Age, the ‘60s come across as a glossy and utopian time of cultural and scientific development. Yet, by the end of the decade, most of the world was trapped in a near fever pitch of anxiety; the Cold War was looming larger than ever, the American presence in Vietnam was being openly and angrily questioned, the sexual revolution was ramping up, and a myriad of violent clashes were happening between protestors and polic...
2020-05-121h 44
Cinema60Pauline Kael's 60s Pick: Bonnie and ClydeGuest Pauline Kael joins Cinema60 in spirit to talk about one of her favorite films from the ‘60s: Arthur Penn’s Bonnie and Clyde! No reading required as Bart & Jenna argue her case for the film against their own personal misgivings.
2020-04-2156 min
Cinema60Kyle Eagle's '60s Pick: Sweet Love, BitterGuest Kyle Eagle talks with Bart & Jenna about Sweet Love Bitter, an under watched gritty jazz film starring Dick Gregory
2020-04-0955 min
Cinema60Tennessee Williams in the '60sTennessee Williams was always a man out of time, but by the ‘60s his time was sadly up. As the ‘50s came to a close, his career began a descent from its utmost apex to such a low that Williams himself fell deep into the bottle. Cinema, however, was still playing catch up with all of his later hits. With the way the decade was front loaded you’d hardly believe how quickly these films dissolved to a trickle after 1962. Perhaps it was due to slackening standards regarding explicit and shocking themes on celluloid. Or perhaps Williams’ celebrity had just got...
2020-03-311h 52
Cinema60Bootleg Bond in the 60s - O.S.S. 117While 007 may have been the original catalyst, what truly turned the 1960s into an era of Bond was the vast number of rip-offs and spoofs that tried to cash in on the craze. Welcome to a new segment on Cinema60 where we guide you through the magical world of Bootleg Bond!You may have seen the Michel Hazanavicius O.S.S. 117 spoofs starring the ever charming Jean Dujardin, but Did You Know that O.S.S. 117 was actually a real franchise? O.S.S. 117 started out as a book series, created by the prolific Jean Bruce, who...
2020-03-101h 15
Cinema60Greg Jackson's 60s Pick: Hands Over the CityAuthor Greg Jackson joins Bart & Jenna to talk about Francesco Rosi's Hands Over The City (Le Mani Sulla Citta)
2020-02-2754 min
Cinema60Kiss, Marry, Kill in the 60s: 1963The following films are discussed:• Raven's End (1963) Kvarteret Korpen Directed by Bo Widerberg Starring Thommy Berggren, Keve Hjelm, Emy Storm • When the Cat Comes (1963) Az prijde kocour Directed by Vojtech Jasný Starring Jan Werich, Emília Vásáryová, Vlastimil Brodský • The Executioner (1963) El verdugo Directed by Luis García Berlanga Starring Nino Manfredi, Emma Penella, José Isbert • The Big City (1963) Mahanagar Directed by Satyajit Ray Starring Leonardo Villar, Glória Menezes, Dionísio Azevedo • It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Wor...
2020-02-181h 34
Cinema60The Legend of Faust in the 60sLet’s talk about dissatisfaction, frustration, futility and temptation. Let’s talk about Faust. Faust is a story about a man who sells his soul to the devil. Depending on the version, his reasons vary from a whim, to a bet, to a last resort scenario. What makes the story of Faust unique and intriguing is the fact that we have our hero engaging directly with evil and yet there's wiggle room on if he is ever truly, flatly condemned. The story of Faust is that of a philosophical riddle grappling with understanding the nature of evil. Sly de...
2020-01-281h 27
Cinema60Ep #19 - Brazilian Cinema Novo in the 60sIn the 1960s, while European cinema was riding out multiple waves, Brazil was inventing Cinema Novo. Emerging out of Brazil’s populist movement of the 1950s and influenced by Italian neorealism and French New Wave, Cinema Novo was a political film movement that served to both warn against and highlight problems plaguing the rural Brazilian everyman. But the dream of social betterment through intellectualist filmmaking sadly stalled when, midway through the 1960s, Brazil experienced a military coup. Echoing the political climate, Cinema Novo quickly turned cynical and violent in its chosen topics, sharply criticizing what they had once hoped wou...
2019-12-171h 18
Cinema60Ep #18 - Aviva Briefel's 60s Pick: Rosemary's BabyGuest Aviva Briefel joins Bart & Jenna in an episode that focuses on Roman Polanski’s Rosemary’s Baby. Aviva tells them why this is her favorite film ever and discusses its many themes–including body horror, misogyny, Satanism and bigotry.
2019-12-0650 min
Cinema60Ep #17 - The Shaw Brothers in the 60sCinema60 gets out of its comfort zone and kicks into high gear with some Shaw Brothers action. While the studio was originally founded back in the 1920s, they became the Shaw Brothers studio that we know and love beginning in the 1960s. From Huangmei operas to wuxia action films, in the 1960s Hong Kong was quickly and violently moving away from traditional mainland influence and coming into its own. It’s no surprise that its cinema reflected these changes to great fanfare. While neither Bart nor Jenna started out as huge fans of the genre, they found th...
2019-11-261h 31
Cinema60Ep #16 - Michelangelo Antonioni in the 60sBart and Jenna try their best to not fall back on being overly reverential about films they love but when it comes to Michelangelo Antonioni, it’s hard to be anything but. As a director, Antonioni was made in the 1960s, starting with his rule-breaking masterpiece L’Avventura and ending with his critically panned Zabriskie Point. In this episode, Bart and Jenna really get into the nitty-gritty of these complex, heartbreaking and sometimes mystifying films. They also try to dispel some widely repeated narratives about how to watch and read Antonioni’s cinematic language. Basically, they desperately want y...
2019-11-051h 36
Cinema60Ep #15 - Kiss, Marry, Kill in the 60s: 1962Bart & Jenna play Kiss Marry Kill with the year 1962. The following films are discussed:• David & Lisa (1962) Directed by Frank Perry Starring Keir Dullea, Janet Margolin, Howard Da Silva• The Inheritance (1962) からみ合い (Karami-ai) Directed by Masaki Kobayashi Starring Keiko Kishi, Tatsuya Nakadai, Sô Yamamura• Ivan’s Childhood (1962) Иваново детство (Ivanovo detstvo) Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky Starring Nikolay Burlyaev, Valentin Zubkov, Valentina Malyavina• The Trial (1962) Le procès Directed by Orson Welles Starring Anthony Perkins, Jeanne Moreau, Orson Welles• Hatari! (1962) Directed by Howard Hawks Starring John W...
2019-10-151h 26
Cinema60Ep #14 - Bootleg Bond in the 60s - Derek Flint and Matt HelmWhile 007 may have been the original catalyst, what truly turned the 1960s into an era of Bond was the vast amount of rip-offs and spoofs that tired to cash in on the craze. Welcome to a new segment on Cinema60 where, every seven episodes, we will guide you through the magical world of Bootleg Bond!We start with Derek Flint and Matt Helm, two big contenders who in 1966, right when Bond Mania was heating up, dipped their toes in the spy-craze waters. Derek Flint was the hyper-intelligent, infallibly brilliant secret agent. Matt Helm was the womanizing drunk...
2019-09-241h 25
Cinema60Ep # 13 - LSD Movies in 1967It’s a sunny day and you and your girlfriend Mimsy decide to take a drive to the park. You’re humming along the highway, not a care in the world, when suddenly the sun turns black. Screeching to a halt, you almost collide with the car in front of you. But wait–it’s not a car… it’s a gigantic mushroom made of glitter! You turn to Mimsy for answers, but Mimsy isn’t there–in her place, just a smiling skeleton that slowly dissolves in front of your eyes. Now you’re weeping on the grass, and you realize yo...
2019-09-031h 14
Cinema60Ep #12 - Black Masculinity in the 60sThe 1960s were ruled by a specific brand of hyper-masculinity, the likes of which had only heightened since the conservative 1950s. Not only did men hold all of the power both legally and socially, but goddamnit they did it because they "deserved it." It was in this climate, with its rigidly defined societal gender standards, that the fight for civil rights was brought to a boiling point in the 1960s. As the decade progressed, black men were increasingly openly and aggressively demanding their due–not only as human beings, but as Men.Yet, black voices and narratives in...
2019-08-131h 42
Cinema60Ep #11 - Agnès Varda in the 60sAgnès Varda was known as the “Grandmother of the French New Wave,” but really she should be known as The Queen. Not only was she the first female filmmaker to pioneer the style, but she went on to have a long and storied career, full of interesting and unique offerings. She made films right up until her death in early 2019. During the 1960s, Varda was not only breaking down barriers of film and gender, but she was coming into her own style as one of the true auteurs. She focused primarily on telling the stories of those...
2019-07-231h 24
Cinema60Ep #10 - Kiss, Marry, Kill in the 60s: 1961 EditionBart and Jenna play Kiss Marry Kill with the year 1961. The following films are discussed:• Wise Guys (1961) Les godelureaux Directed by Claude Chabrol Starring Jean-Claude Brialy, Bernadette Lafont, Jean Tissier• Girl with a Suitcase (1961) La ragazza con la valigia Directed by Valerio Zurlini Starring Claudia Cardinale, Jacques Perrin, Luciana Angiolillo• The Innocents (1961) Directed by Jack Clayton Starring Deborah Kerr, Peter Wyngarde, Megs Jenkins• Splendor in the Grass (1961) Directed by Elia Kazan Starring Natalie Wood, Warren Beatty, Pat Hingle• Acc...
2019-07-021h 29
Cinema60Ep# 9 - Polish Arthouse Cinema in the 60sPoland has produced countless under-seen masterpieces since the rise of the Łódź Film School in the ‘50s. If you don’t believe us, just ask Martin Scorsese, who lent his name and energy to a 21-film restoration project because he loves Polish movies so much.Part of the reason Polish cinema remains relatively unknown is that during the ‘60s, the government kept careful watch on the content and distribution of films; it squashed any portrayals of youthful discontent and personal expression that could be construed as critical of the state. As a result, Poland didn’t have a “New Wave...
2019-06-111h 35
Cinema60Ep #8 - Musicals in 19641964 was the year that Rock’n’Roll decided it was here to stay, at least in America’s cinemas. It was a year that represented a real turning point for movie musicals, with enduring classics of both the old style and the new style making their premieres, as well as a great number of notable others from a variety of cinematic and musical approaches. Join Jenna and Bart as they traverse the entire spectrum of ‘60s musicals in a single year–including some of their all-time favorites, a few guilty pleasures, and a couple real pieces of junk too.The...
2019-05-211h 56
Cinema60Ep #007 - James Bond in the 60sBart and Jenna get drunk in order to talk about the cultural impact that James Bond had in the 1960s, their love/hate relationship with the series, and of course their opinions on every Bond movie from the decade.
2019-04-301h 09
Cinema60Ep #6 - Albert Finney in the 60sAll Albert Finney ever wanted was to be a great character actor. As one of youngest actors to gain his success through Britain’s “angry young men” movement, his stage and film career quickly helped to define it. He actively rebelled against his boyish good looks; the idea of selling of an image of celebrity to the public, positive or not, made him deeply uncomfortable. To Albert Finney, acting was always “work," and he constantly worked against being typecast. Within the ‘60s alone he landed a variety of roles: a working class hooligan, a period drama ladies’ man, a cold blooded...
2019-04-091h 20
Cinema60Ep#5 - Kiss, Marry, Kill in the 60s: 1960Bart and Jenna challenge each other to choose one film from the year 1960 that they love (“Marry”), one film they want to see (“Kiss”), and one film they hate (“Kill”).The following films are discussed:• Rocco and His Brothers (1960) Directed by Luchino Visconti Starring Alain Delon, Renato Salvatori, Annie Girardot• Strangers When We Meet (1960) Directed by Richard Quine Starring Kirk Douglas, Kim Novak, Ernie Kovacs, Barbara Rush• The Sundowners (1960) Directed by Fred Zinnemann Starring Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum, Peter Ustinov• Letter Never Sent (1960) Directed by M...
2019-03-191h 37
Cinema60Ep #4 - Cold War Comedies in the '60sBy the 1960s, the Cold War really started to heat up. Berlin became a divided city, the space race was in full swing, the war in Vietnam was escalating, children across America were made numb to “duck and cover” drills, and the Cuban Missile Crisis practically gave the world a heart attack. You’d think with the ever-looming threat of nuclear annihilation, the subject of two headstrong superpowers bent on world supremacy would be addressed in movies of the era with only the utmost seriousness, but that wasn’t exactly the case. Instead, many filmmakers found the uneasy relations between...
2019-02-261h 42
Cinema60Ep# 3 - Anna Karina with Godard in the '60sAny discussion of modernism in ‘60s films has to begin with Jean-Luc Godard, the era’s single-most important innovator in the language of popular cinema. But because the mere mention of his name can cause certain movie lovers to bristle and run as far away as possible, we decided to tackle his occasionally difficult output in the most approachable way possible. So in this episode, we focus on the films Godard made with his greatest star and muse: Anna Karina.No matter how discursive and inscrutable the lightly plotted cinema of Godard can get, Karina always brings the...
2019-02-051h 40
Cinema60Ep#2 - Clint Eastwood in the '60sFor our second episode, we’re focusing on one actor’s career through the decade: Clint Eastwood. Despite the fact that he got his start in 1950s television serials, the Clint Eastwood we all know and love was ‘born’ in 1964. His persona as a grimacing badass gunslinger was a carefully constructed character written by Sergio Leone for his distinctive Man With No Name series. Bart and Jenna watch every film Clint Eastwood made in the 1960s, investigating the triumphs and stumbles he took trying to break away from his white-hat television roles in order to build his black-ha...
2019-01-141h 27
Cinema60Ep #1 - Everybody's Talkin' in the '60sWelcome to Cinema60, a podcast about the wild and wonderful world of 1960s cinema brought to you by two people who were born over a decade after the fact. Our first episode is a bit of a getting to know you episode, as Bart and Jenna speak for the first time about why they’re taking the plunge into making this podcast in the first place. They discuss everything from their own personal backgrounds with cinema, what it is they want from a movie, and how to approach older cinema while not betraying your modern values. Since thi...
2019-01-011h 22